Forgiven on JSITop21 by John Shelton Ivany

If you had to split the musical universe of Texas (Austin excepted) down the middle, you’d end up with the Hip Hop scene DJ Screw built on the east and on the west, you’d probably have something that could be best represented by Los Lonely Boys.
While retaining a measure of the aesthetics of the Tejano scene (though not much of it’s sound), these are boys reared on suburban interpreters of purely American blues. And they’re the better for it; this is a rare example of integration helping a Chicano band stand out against it’s peers.